The recently-started Lyrids meteor shower is expected peak on coming Saturday and the best time to view the dramatic show will be early morning hours on that day, astronomers said.

American Meteor Society (AMS) said in a statement that the Lyrids meteor shower will be most viewable during a waning crescent moon, which will be better than a full moon. Nevertheless, moonlight could cause some insignificant interference.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has sent back some images of Atlas, an atypical moon of Saturn that looks like a flying saucer, orbiting just outside the gas giant’s rings.

According to NASA, Atlas orbits Saturn just outside its outermost main, bright ring, the ring A. It is just around 19 miles or 30 kilometers across. The moon Pan, which has a similar appearance, is even smaller.

The female North Atlantic right whale that was found floating dead in Cape Cod Bay on Thursday had died from blunt trauma, initial necropsy results showed.

The huge marine creature was brought to a landfill in Bourne, where a team of experts performed a necropsy on Friday. They found bruising from some kind of blunt trauma. However, there was no indication of entanglement.

The National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) has sectioned off thousands of individual pieces of our planet on its website to be “adopted” by supporters.

The 64,000 pieces of Earth are around 55 miles wide and have been assigned randomly. Similar to naming of a star or adopting a highway, participants will not get legal or property rights to the section they will adopt.